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Serving the communities
and areas of Seaforth
Brussels. Dublin Henson
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Seaforth. Ontario
HURON EXPOSITOR WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 4, 1999
PLIC em ioy
For the first time m town history, the
Seaforth Public. Utilities Commission's
outside employees are on strike,
The four employees gave 24 hours
notice, then did not show up for work on
Friday, after voting to turn down a set-
tlement offered as the result of a
September 5 mediation hearing between
themselves and the public utilities com-
mission The hearing followed an urn
sucessful conciliation meeting on July 27.
The previous agreement between the
PUC and the outside employees expired
in March. with negotiations for 1989
beginning in mid-May
"We're close. real close, that's the
worst of it."` said Union Steward Denis
Medd, adding the employees are holding
out for an additional 10 cents per hour. •
an amount they feel will bring them in
line With what other commissions in the
area are receiving
"We've been trying to get caught up
,with Clinton,, and we're getting closer.
But if they get the same percentage in-
crease we get, we'll need that 10 cents
just to keep the same gap•" Mr. Medd
explained
"We'll stay out as long as it takes. We
can hardly go back now." he said, adding
that for two weeks prior to going on
Teachers re.,ch
The Huron County Board of Education
and its 280 secondary school teachers have
reached an impasse in contract
negotiations
The Board anti. the teacher's union.
OSSTF District 45, began negotiations in
March and have met on many occasions
since, as recently ,as last week. If con-
tracts are not m place by the start of the
senool year the Education Relations Com-
mission must appoint a fact finder. The
Huron Board is expecting a fact finding
meeting In the near future, but the Educa-
tion Relations Commission may take some
tune finding someone to appoint because a
large number of school boards across the
province have also not settled with their
teachers.
At its October meeting Monday the
Huron Board passed a collective agree-
ment with its elementary occasional
teachers. The proposal had not yet been
accepted by the teachers
The onls other agreement not yet in
place for the coming year is with the Ser-
s strike
strike the outside workers had withdrawn
all overtime and on call services in a
move of protest. The strike now is just
an extension of that protest,
But coming to some kind of agreement
may not be soon in coming. According to
PUC Chairman Jim Sills, the commission
feels it made the employees a fair and
more than reasonable offer, although he
refused to disclose it for fear of
negotiating in the press.
They're good employees, but there's
only so much we feel we can do for
them. We offered them substantial in-
creases and they don't seem to be
satisfied. But that's the best we can do
at this time," he said,
"We feel we've been more than fair in
our percentage increase, our benefits and
our overtime treatment."
Mayor Hazel Hildebrand, council's
representative on the PUC, agrees that
the commission was fair in its handling
of the negotiations.
"This is the first time there's been a
strike here, and I don't feel very good
about that, but that's their privilege. 1
think we've been most reasonable with
our offer," she said.
PUC Manager Tom Phillips admits he
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contract impi.sse
vice Employees International Union Local
210. representing custodians and
maintenance workers. These negotiations
have gone to mediation.
Horses killed
Two horses were killed and a .man in-
jured in an accident west of Seaforth ear-
ly Tuesday morning.
Leonard Davies of Vanastra was travell-
ing east on Highway 8 at 6:10 a.m. when
two horses entered the highway in front of
his pickup. One of the horses was killed in-
stantly and the other had to be later
destroyed. Mr. Davies sustained minor in-
juries and was taken by ambulance to
Seaforth Community Hospital. The horses,
owned by Phil Bisback of Rit 2 Seaforth,
were valued at $6,000, There was extensive
damage to Mr. Davies' 1983 GMC pickup.
estimated at $6;000.
50 cents a copy
OPEN BUILDING - Huron County Warden Dave Johnston. Huron -
Bruce MP Murray Cardiff, Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazankowsle
Huron MPP Jack Riddell and Museum Board Chairman Robert
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Fisher cut the ribbon at Saturday's ceremony to officially open Ins
Huron County Pioneer Museum. Bundy•photo
open, challenge to reach
BY BILL HENRY develop a county identity where everyone
With Huron County's new, $4 million pulls on the same string."
museum now built, much of the collection
displayed, and the formality of the of-
ficial opening over with Saturday, the
hard part lies ahead, says the direc-
tor/curator of the complex.
"Building the facility marks the end of
one chapter only." says Claus Breede.
"The challenge now is to get the County.
of Huron and their. ratepayers to buy in-
to the museum in a meaningful way-."
That means both reaching farther any.
wider to attract a county audience, as
well taking,he collection out .to Huron
Communities and into, sohools. Plans in-
clude developing • small satellite com-
plexes and interpretive programs for
students • and the community, moving
beyond targeting tourists as the main
user group and using the temporary
gallery to involve as many groups as
possible from the entire county.
Not doing so would mean the facility
fails to serve its 56,000 population area
while perpetuating the misconception that
it is a Goderich, rather than a county..
facility, says Breede.
"Thus certainly is not the Goderich
museum," insists Breede. "It is the
Huron County Museum and we need to
The museum, with its military .
streetscape, agricultural and many other
galleries all highlighting .Huron County
history, must use its collection as more
than antiques and oddities to draw peo-
ple in, says Breede.
Through school packages, both at the
museum and in classrooms, the physical
remnants of the past must focus on
Huron 'residents' history, using the
physical objects to explain the social
past.
ARTIFACTS AS EVIDENCE
"To look at a bunch of neat ,old .things
just because they are neat old things is
not enough. We've got to look at them as
evidence of something."
Among plans for programs, especially
.for school visits, Breede hopes to use the
collection to shift focus from log cabins
and antique farm unplements to the Vic-
torian Age, and Huron's industrial past.
"I'd like to look at how the child func-
tioned in industrialized Huron County in
1890. What was it like to be a child then
in Exeter, Winghani and Goderich, com-
pared to what it was like to be a child or
the farm.. -.this is where the challenge
hes, especially with the younger i" •
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Currently, a school kit developed by
museum volunteers uses a game board.
study guide and some artifacts which
help students in the classroom learn
about modern salt -mining techniques A
second kit on historical mining techniques
is past the research stage, says Breeder
adding that similar school kits on pioneer
kitchens and simple machines art' also
underway.
Similarly, school groups visiting the the
complex can expect specific, curriculum,
based programs.
In my view, we don't want to provior
the schools simply with a day off. It has
to have a clear focus."
But while Breede says a. special
Christmas program, the first. of its kind.
attracted 3,000 county students to the
budding last year, compared to 800 school
visitors during the entire previous year.
program plans go beyond schools to in-
volve the entire county
INTERESTING THE GROUPS
Service clubs, women's institute
I.O.D.E and other county groups need to
know there's a place in the museum tor
them. he says Historical looks at such
.i. temporary displays would at -
new users to the facility from all
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E3,usiness Beat...
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Sea ort Plumbing and Moet
Seaforth Plumbing and Heating will be
moving to a new location at 15 Goderich
Street, in the building that was formerly
Rowcliffe's Garage. The doors at the new
location .will open October 12.
Bill and ;Marlene Holman have operated
their business out of their current location
on Main Street .South since they •started it
four and a half years ago, but the business
has expanded and they find they want for
more space. In particular they would once
again lute to have a showroom. The new
location ,will allow a large showroom, of-
fice ,and reception ,area, and the rest -of the
store ,will he ,allocated for a shop and -stock
area
Besides,apace.AiIrs. Holmanys.the„new
logation is,advatatageous-in that it..Ais,on a
-amain-.traffic zopte,and allows „better ,access
to trucks ,for ,deliveries.
the i$olmans have purchased the
-Waling from am 19lcLau
Shave „De, 3/ries owns :the•,
,has•ibeen.ioq gtpied'.Nby-4.eafo
goyhieh
Bing
and Heating, and says he is still looking
for new tenants.
CANDLELIGHT STUDIO, SEAFORTH
ART AND FRAME SIIOPPE
Candlelight Studio of -Photography and
the ,Seaforth Art and Frame Shoppe will be
losing its Main Street Storefront, but
owners Chuck and Jean Hasson will be
operating the busineas out of their home in
the same building. Candlelight Sftudio will
be located at 56A ,Main Street, which is the
apartment directly above the recently ,sold
store, and which is accessible from a rear
.entrance.
Candlelight .will rstill offer a photography
studio and ccu�sstom framing, ,but will no
-tenger offer filen processing, limited..edition
;prints or :other ,artwork.
Mrs Hasson ,says• she ,and ,her,ltusband
,hope to -find ,a house ,in aSeaforth And
,operate ;their ,b SIOess ,out,,0f theirhome,
tollsMark3eet asi<lou ed the size.lofrits
ddeli : to„1 fffpr„a,trAter ? a►r4e yaao
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ng relocating
salads, mousse, etc.. Paving of the park
ing lot at the store has been completed
and the lot can now accommodate 65
vehicles. Twelve feet of space has been
added to the dairy counter,
After Christmas Mr. Lyons is planula;
on adding scanners for checkouts The
electronic scanners read product codes tit
groceries and ring up a price and a
description of the product which appears .
on the conslimer's receipt. Mr. Lyons says
the scanners are faster and more accurate
than having employees manually type
prices onto a cash register, and are better
for customers and the e ,store.
"INDOR. YARD SALE" •
What looks to ,be ,a ,second hand shop m
the +store formerly eccupied by George of
Brussels fs actually ;an "indoor yard sale."
;Dtit on by.Ren Cardno, 1iVlr•. Cardio says
ere is noticing permanent about the sale
„slid ,he is just .making convenient use of
the, toreftopt:unti ,a „tenant can be found
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